Maintenance may refer to:
- Biological science
- Maintenance respiration
- Maintenance of an organism
- Non-technical maintenance:
- High-maintenance, slang expression
- Alimony, also called maintenance in British English
- Child maintenance, also commonly called "child support"
- Champerty and maintenance, two related legal doctrines
- Feudal maintenance, system of funding armies
- Technical maintenance:
- Aircraft maintenance
- Maintenance, repair and operations
- Car maintenance
- Railroad track maintenance
- Software maintenance
- Property maintenance
- General types of technical maintenance:
- Condition-based maintenance
- Corrective maintenance
- Planned maintenance
- Predictive maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Proactive maintenance
- Reliability centered maintenance
- Value driven maintenance
Famous quotes containing the word maintenance:
“My course is a firm assertion and maintenance of the rights of the colored people of the South according to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, coupled with a readiness to recognize all Southern people, without regard to past political conduct, who will now go with me heartily and in good faith in support of these principles.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradle rules his world. . . . The son never forgets that he owes his life to his mother, not just the creation of it but the maintenance of it, and that he owes her a debt he cannot conceivably repay, but which she may call in at any time.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)